I was ignorant and arrogant and persistent and the writing left me no choice at all.9” “Frankly, it never occurred to me that I needed someone who looked like me to show me the way. “There are so many interesting times we could have visited.” No matter how kindly he treated her now that he had destroyed her, it made no sense.” “Rufus had caused her trouble, and now he had been rewarded for it. Nobody ever comes back to tell you about it.” It’s like dying, though, and going to heaven. You need to see them-starving, ’bout naked, whipped, dragged, bit by dogs … You need to see them. You need to look at some of the niggers they catch and bring back, she said. The ones living in freedom now.””If any do.””They do.””Some say they do. “I’d rather see the others.””What others?””The ones who make it. … Like the Nazis, antebellum whites had known quite a bit about torture – quite a bit more than I ever wanted to learn.” As though the Germans had been trying to do in only a few years what the Americans had worked at for nearly two hundred. Stories of beatings, starvation, filth, disease, torture, every possible degradation. “Then, somehow, I got caught up in one of Kevin’s World War books – a book of excerpts from the recollections of concentration camp survivors. “Like all good works of fiction, it lies like the truth.” “She means the devil with people who say you’re anything but what you are.”
“…I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought – and much less than I would know when he went away.” Yet in a few years an illiterate runaway named Harriet Tubman would make nineteen trips into this country and lead three hundred fugitives to freedom.” Nothing in my education or knowledge of the future had helped me to escape. “Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of “wrong” ideas.” Butler, Kindred Quotes With Page Numbers, It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.” “At least while there’s a chance to get free.” I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was.
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